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Sharon Gomes Thomas - MTV News; Alan M. Wong (Singapore) - MTV; Rita Tsang (British Chinese)- MTV News; Daniel Mananta (Indonesia) Belinda Lee Xin Yu (Singapore) Danny McGill (USA) Original VJ of the first Incarnation of MTV Asia, moved to Channel V and moved back to MTV Asia/MTV India (Second Incarnation) Anu Kottoor (India) [5] Zarina Safuan ...
MTV in its ‘80s heyday was kind of like the epicenter of all things entertainment in a way — people would just drop by, like Andy Warhol with Simon and Nick from Duran Duran.
J.J. Jackson was the oldest and most experienced of the original MTV VJs, having started his radio career at Boston’s WBCN in the '60s. He then moved to the L.A. station KLOS, where he stayed ...
Blackwood formerly hosted a weekday show on Sirius XM Radio The 80s on 8 from 11 to 2 Eastern. On weekends, she continues to co-host the Sirius XM Radio show The Big '80s Top 40 Countdown with other original MTV VJ's. She performed as part of the 2003 road company of The Vagina Monologues. [8] [9]
Quinn joins the other surviving original MTV VJs in hosting programs for The 80s on 8 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm). On the September 22, 2005 episode of Comedy Central 's new series The Showbiz Show with David Spade , Quinn appeared as herself in mock archival footage (dating back to 1983) from her MTV days.
After the dot com crash, Goodman was offered a position on Sirius Satellite Radio on its Big 80s channel, along with the three living original MTV VJs, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter. Since starting there in 2004, Goodman has hosted shows on '80s on 8, Classic Rewind (late 1970s to early 1990s rock) and The Spectrum.
He was part of a Verizon Wireless national radio campaign for three years and since 2004 has been on Sirius XM radio's '80s on 8 channel, along with two other surviving original MTV VJs. In 2013, he and Blackwood, Goodman and Quinn co-authored the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave," published by Atria Books. [1]
Fresh-faced young people hosted its programming and introduced videos. Many VJs became celebrities in their own right. MTV's five original VJs in 1981 were Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn. The VJs were hired to fit certain demographics the channel was trying to obtain: Goodman was the affable everyman ...